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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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It would've added a nice wrinkle to her relationship with the MAGA voter
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Good for Carrie coon
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I thought this was the finale and was underwhelmed until I realized it wasn’t, at the end.
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Mecca wrote:Good for Carrie coon
Thank you Carrie
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spike wrote:I (...) was underwhelmed
Me every week
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Jorge wrote:
spike wrote:I (...) was underwhelmed
Me every week
Perhaps you must possess the existential crisis that is being an American to fully appreciate this show.
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"ohhh gawwwd the bowwt payple"
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
tree_ wrote:"ohhh gawwwd the bowwt payple"
So good
can't stop laughing at her lines
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tragabigzanda wrote:
spike wrote:
Jorge wrote:
spike wrote:I (...) was underwhelmed
Me every week
Perhaps you must possess the existential crisis that is being an American to fully appreciate this show.
I really do think this season is the best one yet as far as themes go.
yeah, im beginning to feel the same.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I dont think she will die no. Probably Walton though.
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blonde blob #3 in the taxi will be moyduh'd i betchee
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They better leave those three alive, specially Carrie Coon.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
tree_ wrote:blonde blob #3 in the taxi will be moyduh'd i betchee
I had the same thought, but then realized they wouldn’t go there because “white girl killed by random Thai cab driver” plot point would create a big PR backlash
yeah, probably not murdered in the cab, but maybe a car accident or something because of the three friends she is most apt to suffer for their sins
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do you guys think Greg?'s cuckoldual sexual proposal was legitimate, or was his intention to freak out the schwartzadude?
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